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Goodbyebird

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Mostly live here: goodbyebird.dreamwidth.org Fannish gopher she/her Bigotry and AI gets you blocked. If you know me from elsewhere, drop me a comment; I may miss your follow otherwise ❤️

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
‘I asked ChatGPT’ Well, I asked Gandalf and he told me you should be silent keep your forked tongue behind your teeth because he did not pass through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm.
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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️ One milkshake to rule the boys, one milkshake to find them, one milkshake to bring the boys and in my yard to bind them 🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️
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⛧ Mother Suspiria ⛧ (Stina Marie) @stinasdemons.com · 24/06/2026
☀️ Happy (Traditional) Midsummer Day ☀️
A woman covered in flowers with a flower crown sitting in a grassy field, looking unhappy
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Goodbyebird @goodbyebird.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
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Everything Is Great! By Carsie Blanton & The Burning Hell
YouTube video by Carsie Blanton
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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Shift drink: Reflecting Pool 1oz rum 1oz mezcal .75oz lime .75oz honey barspoon matcha muddled mint
The described cocktail in a coupe glass.  It's very algae lookin
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Dr Will Wyeth @willwyeth.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
🗣️ Medievalists! 🏰 Check out this page, we’ve done a reconstruction the medieval chapel at Chester Castle! www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places... Please share widely! There’s loads of info and *lovely* images from the repertoire of medieval art - and also more reconstructions!
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The Chester Castle Chapel Wall Paintings
The walls of the medieval chapel in the Agricola Tower at Chester Castle were richly painted around 1240 with scenes including miracles of the Virgin Mary and St Edward the Confessor. From the fragmen...
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Goodbyebird @goodbyebird.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
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Samantha Puc 🍉 @theverbalthing.com · 11/06/2026
For @comicsbeat.bsky.social, I reviewed Tillie Walden’s CHARITY & SYLVIA, which fleshes out extensive documentation of two real queer women who lived openly together in a small town in Vermont in the 19th century. Walden is at the height of her craft here. This book is incredible. My thoughts:
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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 11/06/2026
Britain is a nation of animal lovers. These people aren't. The government is consulting on a ban right now, but it closes on the 18th of June. Five minutes of your time could end this for good. Have your say: consult.defra.gov.uk/defra/trail-hunting-consultation
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Consultation on Proposals to Prohibit Trail Hunting in England and Wales - Defra - Citizen Space
This site contains consultations that are run by Defra.
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smokin' joe rudeboy @twistedsoup.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
I will just say that a close family member who works with AI, when asked how the data is secured, said "it isn't".
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Ariana Serpentine @arianaserpentine.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Dracula but this time Johnathan Harker is Dracula’s reincarnated wife. Put the trans back in Transylvania.
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Michael R Photography 🌿 @msriffle.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
The life of a bloom. Magnolia flowers reveal overwhelming beauty, but only briefly. They're doing the necessary work of reproduction. Not unnoticed, both visually and aromatically. #photography #ECK #flowers #bloomscrolling #magnolia #bloom #macrophotography #macro
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Anne Loves 🔜 NYCC @annecomics.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
You’ve seen it already BUT…just in case you haven’t… youtu.be/bp4_7T9J6Fg
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birds for some reason
YouTube video by Avocado Animations
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Davis Bickford @davis.social · 10/06/2026
my favorite saying to remember this is: "you could be the juiciest peach and some people just don't like peaches."
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Goodbyebird @goodbyebird.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
dammit Paralives became too tempting.
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Jingtong 景桐 @zogzhu.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
This Korean paper asmr artist that I’ve been following for a while made a TikTok of her healing Van Gogh 🥹 Her account name is paper pepper www.tiktok.com/@paper__pepp...
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Goodbyebird @goodbyebird.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
We don't usually see eachothers' headers - here's mine!! Quote post with yours (if you feel like it ❤️).
A multi-fannish collection of various icons I've made throughout the years, featuring some of my all-time favorite characters and dynamics.
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fravery.bsky.social @fravery.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
"Trees are poems that Earth writes upon the sky." Khalil Gibran Ralph Emerson art
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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 05/06/2026
If you're looking to scratch that Chernobyl, Tinker Tailor, Red October, soviet-era thriller itch, Star City (For All Mankind universe from the Russian perspective) is really good.
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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
this game is AI slop. I don't care if they replaced everything, they still used it, still forced their employees to clean it up, and if someone steals once you can't really trust them not to again studios need to understand that AI usage is toxic and our behavior is the only power we have
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Isaiah D. Colbert @shineyezehuhh.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
We saw you from across Valhalla and really dig your vibe.
God of War swingers?
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Goodbyebird @goodbyebird.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
It's looking like this is a year I can finish reading a book after all.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Note to media: police arresting peaceful protesters singing “give peace a chance” is not protesters “clashing” with police. It’s the state violating the First Amendment rights of people upset that human beings who did nothing illegal are being held without due process and being fed maggots.
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Ali ✨🍰 Commissions open! @sacherali.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
[repost with alt-text] Want some pride headers? 👀 Fret not! I did some last year Feel free to use 🌈💛 🧵 - sacher_art #pridemonth #lgbtqia #prideflags
Artistic interpretation of the 2018's redesign of the Pride flag including, along with the rainbow colors, Black, Brown, and Trans pride stripes. Its colors are (from top to bottom) red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet. The lambda on the left includes white, pink, blue, brown, and black. Along with white swirls all around, a white square in the middle says "proud"Artistic interpretation of the Bisexual pride flag. Its colors (from top to bottom) are pink, purple, and blue. Along with white swirls all around, a white square in the middle says "proud"Artistic interpretation of Emily Gwen's Lesbian orange and pink pride flag. It's colors (from top to bottom) are orange, a lighter orange, white, light pink, and a deeper pink. Along with white swirls, a white square in the middle says "proud"Artistic interpretation of the Transgender pride flag. It's colors are (from top to bottom) cyan, pink, white, pink, and cyan. Along with white swirls all around, a white square in the middle says "proud"
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Jocelyn Anderson Photography @jocelynanderson.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
A female Northern Yellow Warbler gathers dandelion seeds to line her nest.
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Thomas “Scary” Fuchs 🎃👻💀 @thomasfuchs.at · 28/05/2026
Then: “Sorry that our OS takes up 100KB, but we added hard disk support in this release!” Now: “This update is 14.5GB and adds 8 emoji.”
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Bogi Takács / WE'RE HERE ToC announced! @bogiperson.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
I reached 10k followers, and as promised, I'm going to celebrate with... 🎉 a BIG recommendations thread of all sorts of cool things!! 🎉 Books, stories, games, comics & more. One like adds one recommendation, one repost adds two. Up to 200 things, I think, but I might need multiple threads!
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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Serendipitous discoveries in the archives and stacks aren’t possible if you shut them down “The document – a scrap of parchment inserted into an account of the Ramsey Abbey manor of Warboys in Huntingdonshire…”
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Goodbyebird @goodbyebird.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
ashmolean museum today. pottery is pretty dang cool.
A tall female figure in a richly decorated gown. A beige pot otherwise unadorned, with a very expressive and fun face on the front. Various clay figurines with red face paint. A duck wine jug, a terracotta piggy bank, and a ram.
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Goodbyebird @goodbyebird.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
I sure do feel boiled, but we managed to tour Oxford University and the cathedral, plus look at many cool buildings today. Big thumbs up to the mid-day mango passionfruit smoothie. Lifesaver.
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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Marvellous Minoan pottery created by artisans from Bronze Age Crete some 3,500 years ago! Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me #Archaeology
My photo collage shows four Minoan clay vessels from Bronze Age Crete some 3,500 years ago. They are all painted with a creamy-yellow slip and decorated with black motifs.

Top left - a round clay flask with a short spout, and a small loop handle at either side of the spout. The flask is decorated with an octopus with eight writhing, sucker-lined arms covering the whole surface of the flask. It stares out at the viewer with wide, almost cartoon-like eyes. Additional motifs include sea urchins, tritons, small rocks and seaweed. Minoan decoration depicting sea motifs is known as ‘Marine Style’. It is 27 cm tall. From Palaikastro, 1500-1450 BC.

Top right - clay rhyton (pouring vessel) in the shape of a stylised bull’s head. The pale clay slip is painted with a black pattern, almost like a leopard print. Circular black eyes, black muzzle and black painted horns.  There’s a pouring hole at the mouth. From Knossos Little Palace, 1450-1375 BC

Bottom left - the so-called ‘Nautilus vessel’ - a tall ceramic jar with a rounded body tapering to a pointed base, a short wide neck, and a single handle.  It is decorated with sea motifs including a large nautilus with three curled, sucker-lined arms rising out of a shell, corals, and seaweed. From Phaistos Palace, 1500-1450 BC

Bottom right - Basket-shaped rhyton decorated with four bands of double -axes around the body of the vessel. It has a circular base and straight sides which taper inwards with a carry handle on either side There is a small pouring hole in one of the bottom corners. 19.8 cm tall. From Pseira, 1500-1450 BC
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Atarial @atarialart.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
i've been wanting to paint a portrait of whoopi for so long; she's one of my fav actresses, so really wanted to get her right for this :D #art #startrek #guinan #whoopigoldberg
portrait of guinan from star trek, portrait is from the waist up and has a starry background
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Franchesca Ramsey @chescaleigh.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
why does the “you can’t fight it” rhetoric around AI feel so familiar?? 🤔
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Brian G. aka urbanbohemian 🪩🥂💖 @urbanbohemian.com · 25/05/2026
Noticing how most holidays strayed further from their meaning to signify "a day off" and then to "a day to sell shit" is one of those "let this radicalize you" moments. Navigate capitalism as best you can, and sure, snag a deal along the way, but it is really kinda fucked up.
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Tiffany Baxter - MCM London F-19 @tiffbaxter.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
☁️The sky, just for us☁️ Francesca & Michaela
An illustration of Francesca & Michaela from Bridgerton. They are walking with their arms around each other's waists, their free arms held above their heads pulling with them the sky in the form of a great length of cloth that is folding around them. Michaela is a Black woman with tight curls in an updo; her simple empire line dress is forest green & she has green drop earrings. Francesca is a white woman in a blue dress, with part of her light brown hair held up in a bun, the rest in a large ringlets. The background is an abstractly rendered Highland landscape in coloured pencils. The border is an aerial view of trees rendered the same.
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Goodbyebird @goodbyebird.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Technically one year late, but I booked my mom and myself a night at a castle. It's beautiful! We walked around earlier in the day to see the exterior and the gardens, then had afternoon tea. We are now hiding out in our room from the oppressive heat. 10/10 would recommend
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Paul Gundlach @paulsgundlach.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
For a timeline cleanse, here’s a shot of a whale tail today in the ocean off of Provincetown. That green tint in the water is caused by phytoplankton, tiny microscopic plants with chlorophyll that reflect green light onto the whale’s white underside. I hope you are having a great day!
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jcpillars.bsky.social @jcpillars.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
The fact that Nyong’o’s beauty is causing a war between two rival cultures in America right now is proof enough that she is the perfect Helen of Troy.
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Perry Barber @umpireplb.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Some thoughtful person provided a link to a non-paywalled version of this article: gcaptain.com/drowning/
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Drowning Doesn't Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing, call for help that most people expect. In this article, Mario explains what drowning really looks like and how to recognize it when its happening.
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Jana Heidersdorf @checanty.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
If you see this, post your bird art!
Artwork of a girl standing on a bridge watching the GIANT phantomlike figur of a swan pass byArtwtork inspired by the Tower card in tarot. A GIANT black swan curls around a dark towerArtwork of a bird of unclear species but with a very long beak swooping down on a human hand and piercing it with said beakartwork of a white corvid in front of a black background. Presumably a raven.
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jawanaka.bsky.social @jawanaka.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Which is one of the major reasons it's important to avoid using dehumanizing rhetoric for *anyone*, even your enemies, even casually, because any time you rhetorically draw a line around "human" that doesn't include every human, you are reinforcing that propaganda effect.
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Dr Holly Nielsen @hollynielsen.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
I’ve never had a single problem sharing spaces with trans people, they’re just people living their lives for fucksake. I do have an issue sharing spaces with transphobes, people who think women’s bodies should be policed.
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Goodbyebird @goodbyebird.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
cutest Pokemon yet my goodness
Mega Altaria looking like a fluffy cloud made of cute, with a light blue body and hanging tail ribbons.
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Goodbyebird @goodbyebird.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
This is a cat checkpoint; relinquish your most recent cat picture on your phone.
A content cat is doing a stretch.
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Joanna Barnum @joannabarnum.com · 15/05/2026
I’ve been working on “The Lovers” when in the flat here in Cornwall. I think it’s done, but I’ll give it another look over when I get home. I planned this composition to maybe crop the painting into a large oval frame, but not so sure I want to now. Ravens, Glastonbury abbey, and may blossoms.
Large watercolor painting with a hand holding brushes in front of it for scale. The art is of two ravens with their heads close together framed by the ruins of an old church and many white flowers.
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Eleonor Piteira @eleonorpiteira.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Aloy, Despite the Nora 🏹 Horizon Zero Dawn fanart, 2023
Aloy from the videogame Horizon Zero Dawn, illustrated by Eleonor Piteira. Aloy is in profile holding a bow with 6 arrows. Light blue circles are coming out of the focus on her ear, framing her face.
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Goodbyebird @goodbyebird.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Forget sharing the last picture you saved, I want to see the very first picture on your phone. Scroll back until your fingers bleed. Stardate June 1st 2009. Next up is a selfie taken in my old room, followed by a jumpscare of a ginormous bear skeleton from New York.
A pretty Vulcan lady. Honestly, that tracks.
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